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{
"term": "nonsense",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Reports that he has resigned are nonsense."
},
{
"text": "You're **talking nonsense**!"
},
{
"text": "‘I won't go.’ ‘Nonsense! You must go!’"
},
{
"text": "**It's nonsense to** say they don't care."
},
{
"text": "The idea is an economic nonsense."
},
{
"text": "Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense."
},
{
"text": "Most of his theories are arrant nonsense."
},
{
"text": "People are talking a lot of nonsense about the singer's private life."
},
{
"text": "What's all this nonsense about you giving up your job?"
},
{
"text": "You don't believe that superstitious nonsense, do you?"
},
{
"text": "‘I heard he's resigning.’ ‘That's nonsense.’"
},
{
"text": "How can you believe such nonsense?"
}
],
"synonyms": "rubbish (3)",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
"verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
"preposition": ["nonsense about"],
"phrases": [
"a load of nonsense",
"a lot of nonsense",
"make a nonsense of something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a book of children’s nonsense poems"
},
{
"text": "Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense."
},
{
"text": "The whole article seemed like complete nonsense to me."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
"verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
"preposition": ["nonsense about"],
"phrases": [
"a load of nonsense",
"a lot of nonsense",
"make a nonsense of something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "silly or unacceptable behaviour",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense."
},
{
"text": "I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again."
},
{
"text": "I'm not going to stand any more of this nonsense."
},
{
"text": "Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
"verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
"preposition": ["nonsense about"],
"phrases": [
"a load of nonsense",
"a lot of nonsense",
"make a nonsense of something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to reduce the value of something by a lot; to make something seem silly",
"examples": [
{
"text": "If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system."
},
{
"text": "The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery."
},
{
"text": "This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that something is stupid or not true",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnɒnsns/",
"audio": "no/nonsense/nonsense__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnɑːnsens//ˈnɑːnsns/",
"audio": "no/nonsense/nonsense__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}